Welcome to Linux on Oracle

Only Oracle makes Linux Unbreakable by providing support for the Linux OS, making technical contributions to the Linux kernel, and forging strategic partnerships, enabling customers to deploy their mission-critical transactional and decision support applications on low-cost Linux servers.

Lower cost of computing

Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux enables consolidation of business applications on a cluster of standardized low-cost Intel servers, forming the foundation of a grid computing infrastructure.

Grid computing delivers the highest quality service at the lowest cost, on an infrastructure that can easily adapt to changing business needs.

With a grid computing infrastructure built on Linux, the cost of downtime is dramatically reduced; self-managing software and automated administration reduce the cost of management; and customers can incrementally scale-out their IT systems in a cost-effective and risk-free manner.

Support for software stack

Oracle's entire product catalog, including the Database, Application Server, Collaboration Suite, Development Tools, and E-Business Suite are fully supported on the Linux platform.

Oracle is the only solution provider to offer customers technical support for the Linux operating system as part of its standard license support agreements.

Oracle's delivery of a complete and integrated support solution leads to faster problem resolution and reduced support costs, which are critical to our customers' success.

Long-Standing commitment to Linux Oracle's long-standing commitment to Linux started with the release of the industry's first commercial database on Linux in 1998, and that commitment and leadership continues today.

With more than 9,000 developers using a Linux infrastructure to do product development, Oracle boasts one of the world's largest commercial Linux development organizations.

Oracle's industry-leading benchmarks demonstrate world-record performance and price-performance of its database, application server and application suites on the low-cost Linux platform.

These benchmarks have been run on a small 2-processor, large 32-processor servers, and multiple clustered servers demonstrating the ability of Linux to support all sizes of workloads on transactional and decision support systems.

Oracle's long-standing commitment to securing customer data continues by helping to secure the Linux platform. For example, Oracle Database on Linux has met the Common Criteria Standard at EAL4 level - the highest industry security level for commercial software.

Linux in the data center

Oracle further demonstrates its commitment to Linux by running its own IT systems on Linux, and has realized first-hand the benefit of lower IT costs from using Linux in a grid computing infrastructure.

For example, Oracle OnDemand, Oracle's data and applications outsourcing business, runs on a Linux infrastructure. Oracle customers such as Electronic Arts, Dell, and Amazon.com, as well as thousands of others in various industry verticals, are deploying their transaction
processing, decision support, and third-party applications on the Linux platform.

Oracle's growing list of partner Independent Software Vendors have certified their application solutions for the Linux platform, offering customers a wide choice of applications on Linux to suit the needs of their business.

Oracle is firmly established as the leader in the Linux database market with 69 percent market share, according to Gartner.

Trusted source of Linux expertise

Oracle has worked extensively to ensure a unified Linux operating system code base so that customers will not incur costs for supporting multiple or specialized versions of Linux.

Oracle also provides consistent, reliable expertise for building and deploying Linux solutions. Oracle contributes to the Linux Open Source community directly and in collaboration with strategic partners, including Linux distributors.

For example, Oracle's Kernel Team contributed a cluster file system to the Linux kernel under the terms of the GPL, GNU public license. By making our contributions open source, we ensure that the software is adopted and enhanced by the Linux community.

The true opportunity

Oracle on Linux offers tremendous opportunities to modernize and automate your data center, while at the same time lowering IT infrastructure costs.

Today, many customers are using Oracle on Linux in mission-critical environments and are reaping the benefits of lower costs, easier manageability, higher availability and flexibility along with performance and scalability advantages.

Oracle's commitment to Linux is exemplified by our unique Linux OS support, our technological leadership, and our pervasive use of Linux to run our business.